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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
The Sudafed Security Trade-Off
This writer wrestles with the costs and benefits of tighter controls on pseudoephedrine, a key chemical used to make methamphetamine: Now, personally, I sincerely...
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Trust Requires Transparency
Adam Shostack explains to Verisign that trust requires transparency. This is a lesson Path should have learned.
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Liars and Outliers Update
Liars and Outliers is available. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have ben shipping the book since the beginning of the month. Both the Kindle and the Nook versionsordered...
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What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
Last month, a U.S. court demanded that a defendent surrender the encryption key to a laptop so the police could examine it. Now it seems that she's forgotten the...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid's Beard
It's an acoustic bluegrass band. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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Securing iPads for Exams
Interesting blog post about locking down an iPad so students can take exams on them.
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Security Implications of "Lower-Risk Aircraft"
Interesting paper: Paul J. Freitas (2012), "Passenger aviation security, risk management, and simple physics," Journal of Transportation Security. Abstract: Since...
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Solving the Underlying Economic Problem of Internet Piracy
This essay is definitely thinking along the correct directions.
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Error Rates of Hand-Counted Voting Systems
The error rate for hand-counted ballots is about two percent. All voting systems have nonzero error rates. This doesn't surprise technologists, but does surprise...
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The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication
In 2005, I wrote an essay called "The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication," where I predicted that attackers would get around multi-factor authentication systems...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Clothing that Keeps an Exercise Journal
It's called Squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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VeriSign Hacked, Successfully and Repeatedly, in 2010
Reuters discovered the information: The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new...
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Prisons in the U.S.
Really good article on the huge incarceration rate in the U.S., its causes, its effects, and its value: Over all, there are now more people under "correctional...
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The Idaho Loophole
Brian C. Kalt (2012), "The Idaho Loophole," Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2. Abstract: This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho...
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Possibly the Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet
The storyline: TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags. Screener determines that they're not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of...
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Biases in Forensic Science
Some errors in forensic science may be the result of the biases of the medical examiners: Though they cannot prove it, Dr Dror and Dr Hampikian suspect the difference...
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